Someone new…
I made a new friend in my biology course today! His name is Brian and he introduced himself with “I don’t believe in using lines to meet girls…. I guess that was a line.” He was incredibly random and funny, he jumped from topic to topic quite easily from the class to shoes (he liked talking about heels for some reason… foot fetish, perhaps?) and then to classic British literature and then started talking about Russian literature with me. Which is nice, because I have read some translated work so I could keep up with the conversation. After class he asked me if I wanted go out on sometime, like on a date. I hesitated and he asked if there was a guy and I said it was complicated. He gave me his email and his number and told me to give him a call if things get simplified and said okay. Of course, even if things do get simplified, I probably won’t give him a call. There wasn’t much of an attraction there.

Someone old…
I’ve been catching up with some old friends lately. In particular, R, who I haven’t seen in ages. We’re in the planning stages of a reunion. Which is pretty cool. Plus I’ll be getting shows to watch from him. Love, love, love. Speaking of shows, I should stop watching episodes on my laptop and get back to studying for my quiz (!!!) tomorrow.

Someone borrowed…
I called to complain about my class to A, but instead her boyfriend picked up the phone so I borrowed K for like 15 minutes to bitch about the course until she got back to the vicinity of her cell phone. She asked me why I was borrowing her boyfriend for a bitchfest - I answered “Well you let him pick up your phone…”

Someone blue…
The Boy is depressed and unhappy and nothing is making him cheerful. If I wasn’t feeling disappointment in him right now, I would consider cheering him up. But I’m not in the mood, despite being in a rather excellent mood today. I didn’t go for a run, I didn’t eat an absurd amount of junk food. I’m just content today. It may possibly help that I know that he’s feeling incredibly shitty…

Do you know how you get a guy who doesn’t read very much to read something and read quickly?

Promise to talk dirty to him later if he can find the only type on a page.

Not only will he read it, he’ll actually make suggestions for things to be changed. But he still didn’t find the only typo on the first page. So rather than talking dirty, we’ve been having a seemingly normal conversation. Sex hasn’t been brought up at all (we’ve been talking about cartoons and comics).

I think I’m disappointed. I’ve gotten used to the dirty conversations to round out my evenings.

So today during work, the most popular question I was asked consisted of “Are you back for the summer?”, followed quite closely by “How was your first year of university?” and “What are you working on this summer?” The fourth most popular question that I was asked today? “Are you dating anyone?” This was particularly evident when I checked my cell phone during my lunch break and during my short breaks. “Are you texting your boyfriend?” “Got a call from your sweetheart?” Apparently everyone but me thinks that I’m dating because they were also asking if I was sure that I wasn’t dating anyone. What the hell kind of question is that? But… whatever.

It was really nice seeing everyone again and it was nice that everyone was all like “Michelle! You’re back!” and then came over to chat me up. It was really nice and my first couple of days are going to be pretty slack since all I’m doing is shadowing someone. And then, you know, the day shift was ending and the afternoon shift was beginning and then suddenly I was up in the air and I screamed because I didn’t see it coming and then I twist around and go “OH MY GOD, NEVER DO THAT TO ME AGAIN!” Of course I was set back down and then it was like “You cut your hair…” Hello summer boys… I’ve missed you all so very much. I ended up getting picked up quite a bit, there’s apparently something about being 5′1″ that makes me easy to be scooped up into a hug. It’s nice to know that some things never change.

And here’s a conversation that had me biting my tongue:
E: (goes on about my school lets just about anyone in)
A: (chimes in with a particularly hurtful comment)
M: (to A) You know I’m refraining from kicking you, right?
A: (to E) She’ll be pulling out the whip and handcuffs out next.
E: (to A) You’re disturbed.
M: (to A) I can’t believe you said that.
A: Oh, it can be our little secret,
M: (glares at A, excuses self from E and walks off and before I’m out of earshot…)
A: Yeah, she wants me.
M: (stops walking, turns around, holds up middle finger, E sees and laughs)
A: (clueless)

I paid attention, for the first time this entire time, during the entire one and a half hours of my biology lecture. Generally, I get bored and start doodling, or start checking my email on my laptop or just start kind of dozing. I mean, I will pay attention, but I just do not really retain any of it. But today I did, for the entire class, and actually found that today’s topic was interesting and that I learned something. I found something about cell biology that I actually like and I was quite pleased with myself.

It almost made the fact that I took three hours to get to school and back worth it for one class. Almost. But really, it was nice to know that I did find something interesting about that class.

And I really, really, really need to stop meeting guys in transit… I met a guy on the bus today going home. His name is Jamieson (yes, I realize that it sounds like a last name) and he’s 26 years old and works at a bank. So he’s around 7-8 years older than I am. But really adorable in this geek-chic kind of way. He gave me his business card, but I misplaced it whilst I was filling out tax forms. And then I found it again while I was on the phone with Katie and I was debating throwing it away… It is currently on my cork board in my room because I’m not sure what I am going to do with it.

I need to start finding guys my own age, it seems to be getting ridiculous after a while…

I have this really weird relationship with Alex. It started off as mutual attraction, and then he had personal issues so my feelings just kind of, for lack of a better term, died. But he’s gotten over most of those personal issues and he likes me, way more than I like him. I hadn’t seen him for quite a while, and then for the last few days at school, I’ve either been having lunch with him or just randomly seeing him. And it’s not like we’re dating or anything, because we’re not. Only today I saw one of his friends (Liam…? Ian…? I can never remember, oh well) asked when I was going to make an ‘honest man’ out of Alex (by that, he meant actually dating Alex) and so I’m just kind of, a touch dumbfounded by this statement which forces me to explain to Liam/Ian that I don’t like Alex in that way. And so L/I is a little taken back by this because he thought that I did because of the way that Alex goes on about it/me/’us’. So the next time that I see Alex, I need to set the record straight. With my luck, we won’t see each other until the end of March or something.

And E (half of my totally awesome chemistry lab group members) was hitting on me during the chem lab last Thursday. And then told J (the other half of my totally awesome chemistry lab group members) that she (E) is dating me. (Do keep in mind that E is a girl, as is J, and that I am happily heterosexual.) This disturbed me for many reasons. (1) I told her that I was not currently dating anyone. (2) When she suggested that I ‘try it out’ because I wasn’t dating anyone, I did not agree (nor disagree). (3) I never said that I wanted to date her. And (4) she asked if I had a preference to men or women and I did tell her that I like people with the Y chromosome. So I really do not see why she would go around telling people that she’s dating me? It really odd and I would have found it odd if it had been a guy going around telling people that he was dating me as well, so it’s not because she’s a girl. It’s because it’s just so downright headache inducing! Her telling people that she’s dating me forces me to clear the air with those people. (I saw J in my chem lecture today and she asked me, again, if I was dating E because apparently E was pretty adamant about it being the truth.)